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Heads of State

Year of the Metal Rooster辛酉( at the beginning of the year Metal Monkey庚申)

Era of Diocletian: 437/438 ( year November )

Syria: 1032/33 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

• JULY 9: In the Battle of Toulouse defeated a gathered of Eudo of Aquitaine army from the Frankish Empire thousands of invading Saracens under their leader as- Samh ibn Malik al- Chawlani, which falls in this battle.

• After the death of King Chilperic II of the Franks Charles Martel House Meier Theuderic rises IV as his successor. How Childeric is also Theuderic a powerless shadow king, while the real power lies with the home Meier.
• British victory of Cornwall Wessex on the River Hehil
• Kormesij Khan is the Bulgarian Empire as the successor of Tervel.

Mayan Empire

• K'inich Ahkal Mo ' Nahb III. becomes ruler of the Mayan city of Palenque.

Religion

• Alduin is the Archbishop of Cologne.

• Foundation of the Abbey of Prüm by Bertrada the elderly, the mother of Pippin the Younger.

Born

• By 721: Jabir ibn Hayyān, Arab alchemist ( † about 815)

Died

• 07 May: John of Beverley, Bishop of York

• Beginning of the year: Chilperic II, Merovingian king of the shadow Frankish Empire (c. 670 )

• Eadfrith of Lindisfarne, Anglo-Saxon saint and bishop
• Gemmei, Japanese Empress (* 661 )
• Liu Zhiji, Chinese historian (* 661 )
• As- Samh ibn Malik al- Chawlani, Islamic governor of Al -Andalus

• By 721: Ardo, last king of the Visigoths